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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK XAVER LIST, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL CARD MOUNTING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A. CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DISPLAY BOX.

Application filed October 12, 1920. Serial No. 416,506.

This invention relates to improvements in cartons formed of fibrous material, such as paste board, and which are used as receptacles in which merchandise may be-packed and shipped, and in which n'ierchandise can be displayed for sale on a counter, shelf or in shop windows.

Heretofore cartons of this type have been provided with display panels arranged so as to extend upright in the display position of the carton. These panels had very little stability, with the result that slight knocks invariably delivered by the arm of the salesmen in removing items of merchandise from the container for the purchaser, resulted in bending the panel and thereby destroying its effectiveness. An object of the present invention is the provision of a display panel having sufficient stability to withstand ordinary usage or handling of the container.

Display cartons have heretofore been constructed with a view of permitting arrangement ofthe container portion in the cover portion when the latter is inverted, so as to obtain support of the container at an incline. Frequently with this construction the elevated end of the container became detached from the edge of the cover and fell into the latter resulting in a loss of display. Another object of the present invention is to provide for locking the container portion with the cover portion of the carton, so that accidental displacement of the container while on display will be prevented.

To these ends the invention resides in certain combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter more fully desm'ibed. In the. following specification one embodiment of my invention will be described. reference being had to the accon'ipanying drawings forming part thereof and in which;

Figure 1 is a perspective of one form of the invention;

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view, with the cover thrown back:

Figure 3 is a detailed side elevation of the parts moving into display position;

Figure 4 is a. rear elevation of the device in display position, showing the end wall construction of the container illustrated in Figures 1 and 2;

Figure 5 is a transverse section taken on the line 5-5 of Figure 2.

Figure 6 is a detailed end elevation of the form of container embodied in Figure 5;

Figure 7 is a detailed perspective of the carton in closed position;

Figure 8 is a detailed longitudinal section of a modified form of carton; and

Figure 9 is a plan view of the blank and Figure 10 is a plan view of the advertising panel.

The cover and the container telescope one into the other in the closed position of the carton. \Vhen the cover is removed as a closure for the container it is adapted to function to support the same while on display, in an inclined position; and is further adapted, in the last named position of the container, to provide an upwardly extending display surface upon which may be printed the usual matter employed to advertise the contents of the container. A section 6 of the base of the cover extends upwardly to one end of a pair of oppositely disposed longitudinal slits 78 in. the said base, which terminate in the transverse slit 9, the presence of which permits the inward turning of transverse section 10 on crease hinge 11 to disclose the lower portion of a recess 12. The longitudinal slits 13-44 form continuations of slits 7-8 and terminate at crease hinge 15, which permits inward turning of transverse section 16 to disclose the upper portion of recess 12 which receives the elevated end portion of the cont ainer.

The transverse section 17 is rigid and connected to the movable transverse section 18 by crease hinge 19. (Ti-ease hinge 20 connects section 18 with section 21, and crease hinge 22 connects transverse section 21 to the end wall 23 of the container. In opening the box from the closed position shown in Figure 7, the cover is lifted about the crease hinge 22 and laid back in the manner shown in Figure 2 which illustrated a development of the opening of the cover, indicating the parts about midway between the closed position of Figure 7 and the display position of Figure l. The opening of the cover is accomplished by the rotary movement to the left first about the crease hinge 22 until the section 21 assumes an upright position. The crease hinges 19 and 20 are then bent to cause the free end of the cover to restflushed upon the supporting flaps and the major portion of the cover to lie in a \ertical plane. The end 23 of the container is inwardly into contact with the base 26 and section 21 when the lu s override the edges of sections 10-16. wnereby the sections 10 -16 are-enabled to intercept lugs 24 and prevent accidental movement of the container or the cover in a direction that would operate to disengage the parts.

In Figures 1-7 a display panel 27 of any desired construction and configuration 1s suitably connected to the section 18 so as to move therewith as a unit. For purposes of illustration I have shown oppositely disposed tongues 2829 disposed in similarly disposed marginal slits 3031 in section 18. The length and breadth of the panel 27 is such that the same provides a substantial closure for the narrowed slit between sections 1016 of the cover when the same operates as a closure for the container, and this relatively large size of the panel is such as to render the panel relatively conspicuous in the display position of the container. In this connection it will be observed that the side walls 7 4 and 75 extend to points alining with crease hinge 19, so that when the carton is in display position the area immediately surrounding display panel 27 is unobstructed whereby a clear view may be had of the said dis )Iay panel. The base 26 of the container body 15 provided with end walls 23 and 6t) and with side walls 61 and 62 foldable upwardly upon the lines of flexure 63 and 61. The side walls 61 and 62 are provided at one end with flaps 65 and 66 adapted to be bent over upon the lines 67 and 68 and having slits 69 and 70 adapted to be intcrfitted when the flaps are extended across the end of the carton. These flaps are intended to rest between the end wall 60 and the doubled inner portion 36 which folds about the line 71, the lugs 34: lying against the inner faces of the side walls 61 and 62. The doubled portions of the side walls 32 and 33 are then folded inwardly upon the lugs and bind the end wall structure closed. T he flaps 16 and 47 upon the other ends of the side walls 61 and 62 have tongues as shown to enter the slits 72 and '73 upon the end wall 23. 'The manner of applying these tongues is shown in Figure 7.

Also the cover is provided at its free end wall with flaps 39 shown in Figure 9 which have slits for permitting of the interfitting of the flaps, said flaps being foldable about the two side walls 74 and 75 of the cover. These sidewalls extend preferably only to the crease hinge 19 and are cut away suitable to admit the lingers therebeneath for facilitating opening of the cover. Of course the walls of the container may be built in any suitable manner and also the free end wall of the cover.

The bottom portion 6 of the cover is provided with end wall bent upwardly at right angles, the interfitted flaps 39 being received between this wall 80 and an inner flap 81 bent downwardly from the top of the wall 80. A tongue 40 is formed on the flap 81 to lie against the bottom portion 6 as in Figure 2. The ends of tongue 40 project beyond the ends of the wall 80 and flap 81 and enter slits 11 made in the side walls 74 and 75.

In the form of carton shown in Figure 8, the cover and container are formed of separate blanks of fibrous material such as card board, the base 52 of the cover being provided with an opening 12 corresponding to theopening described in connection with the preferred forms and ada ted for receiving one end of container. 11 this connection it will be observed that when the carton is in the display position the outer surfaces of the portion of base 52 disposed above opening 12 function as a display 4 panel. The end wall 54 of the cover portion operates to support the cover in conjunction with a flap 55. In this connection it may be stated that theend wall 54 and the end wall 59 of the cover may be constructeieaspreviously described in connection with the preferred forms of the invention. From the foregoing it is to be observed that the device of this invention is of simple construction and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture, it is easily set up in the display position and when so arranged the parts are positively locked against accidental displacement.

Although I have shown and described an ideal embodiment of the invention it is to be understood that 1am not to be limited to the structures so shown and described it being obvious that the structure is susceptible of many mechanical changes and these I reserve the right to make within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A display carton comprising cover and container portions, the former of which forms a closure for the latter in the closed position of the carton, said cover being removable from the container and adapted to be arranged upright on one of its lateral portions 1n the display position of the carton and having a socket disposed above the lower lateral portion when the cover is arranged in display position, said container 1 ing in its bod being foldably connected to the cover and supported thereby at an incline in the display position of the carton by having a section thereof adapted for insertion into the socket of the cover.

2. A display carton comprising cover andcontainer portions, each of whichis adapted to telescope one into the other in the closed position of the carbon, said cover being removable from the container and adapted to be arranged upright on one of its walls in the display position of the carton and havportion and intermediate its opposite en s a socket and further having a section hinged to aside wall of-the socket and adapted to provide a closure therefor in the closed position of the carton,

, said container being toldably connected to the COXBL and supported thereby at an incline in the display ositi on of the carton by having a section t ereof adapted for in-' 4' sertion into the socket and into engagement with the closure therefor.

3. A- display carton comprising cover and container portions, each of which is adapted.

, to telescope one into the other in the closed position of the carton, said cover being removable from the container and adapted to be arranged upright'on one of its walls in the displa position of the carton and having in its o dy portion and intermediate its ends a socket and further having sections hinged to opposite side walls of the socket {and adapted [to provide a closure therefor in the closed position of the carton, said container being in one piece with and foldably connected to the cover and supported thereby at an incline in the display position of th'e'carton by having a section thereof adapted for insertion into the socket and into engagement with the closure section therefor. v

4. A display carton comprising a container, a cover therefor foldably connected with an end of the container and having an o )ening to receive such end of the container, t \e opening being intermediate the ends of the cover whereby tohold the container in an inclined position when the cover is folded back on end, the foldable connection between I the cover and container allowing said container to move into and out of the opening 1n the folding movement to close the containers and cover.

vertical position resting flush on one end, said cover having an opening elevated from said-end to receive an end of the container, said cover having a portion foldably con necting the container and cover and adapted to slide inand out eontainen.

6. A' display. carton comprising a con tainer, a cover therefor having an opening to receive an end of the containen vwhen the cover is stood on end, a portion of the bot- A display carton comprising a con tamer, a cover therefor adapted to assume a the opening with the tom of the container being foldably connected with said end of the container, having a part extending above the container and-sliding in and out the opening therewith.

7. A display carton comprising a cover for the carton adapted to be 'stood on end and having an opening therein with a flap extending from the bottom portionof the opening, and a container body removably received in the opening and resting in part upon said flap, said container vbody having means to interlock'with the flap.

8. A display carton com rism a cover adapted to he placed on en and aving an opening therein with a flap extending inwardly at the upper side-of the opening and having bottom sections creased and folded to permit of removing the adjacent end of the body into the opening, and a panel car ried-by one of said sectionsand extending above thebody in the display position.

In testimony that I claim the'foregoing I as my invention, .1 have signed my name hereunder.

' F RANK XAVER LIST, 

